The NHS has announced that the Gender Identity Development Service, UK's only gender clinic for children is to be closed. Our Duty has been critical of this service provided by The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation trust since our foundation in 2018. Announcement https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/gender-dysphoria-clinical-programme/implementing-advice-from-the-cass-review/ Our Duty Statement Parents of children who believe themselves to be … Continue reading Response to Announcement of GIDs Closure
Responding to the Interim Report of The Cass Review
This is a response the Interim Report published by The Cass Review. First up, Our Duty has been calling for an immediate moratorium on the provision of Opposite Sex Imitation Medicine pending the final report from The Cass Review. Nothing in the Interim Report diminishes the rationale for such a moratorium. Indeed, if anything, our … Continue reading Responding to the Interim Report of The Cass Review
The Cass Review – Interim Report
On 10th March 2022 The Cass Review published an Interim Report. https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/ The Cass Review Interim Report The Interim Report was covered by two articles in the British Medical Journal including one by Dr Hilary Cass. https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o589 Review of gender identity services for children and young people, Dr Hilary Cass https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o629 Our Duty will, in … Continue reading The Cass Review – Interim Report
Conversion Therapy Petition
On Monday 8th March a 'Westminster Hall Debate' was had in the United Kingdom parliament in response to a petition calling for a ban on LGBT Conversion Therapy. The full debate in Parliament is available on Parliament TV The petition calls for the Government to make running conversion therapy for LGBT people a criminal offence. This … Continue reading Conversion Therapy Petition
Call to Stop Opposite Sex Imitation on NHS
Our Duty calls on the government to end the scandal of opposite sex imitation medicine
Policy for the United Kingdom
There is no evidence of any benefit to sufferers of post-pubertal sex dysphoria from medical intervention. Mental health outcomes are not improved by gender transition. Our Duty takes the view that medical treatment to imitate the opposite sex is not just unnecessary, it is harmful. There is no doubt that young people who come to … Continue reading Policy for the United Kingdom
Informed Consent
Keira Bell is a detransitoner – a young woman who used to be transgender but has since desisted from the medication and behaviours associated with transgenderism. In January 2020 Keira joined the legal action being pursued by Susan Evans, a former employee of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), and a parent "A" of a … Continue reading Informed Consent
Newsletter – June 2020
Debate and Sunlight As the dust settles on the earth shattering revelation that renowned Harry Potter author JK Rowling knows that there are two sexes, the world of gender ideology is once again shaken to its foundations by the BBC current affairs programme, Newsnight. We knew the medical investigations team at Newsnight were interested in … Continue reading Newsletter – June 2020
BBC Newsnight – Safeguarding Concerns
Clinicians reported worries that some patients were referred onto a gender transitioning pathway too quickly.Clinicians were discouraged from voicing concerns about children’s welfare to lead safeguarding officer & referring cases where they feared abuse to social services https://youtu.be/zTRnrp9pXHY BBC Newsnight - June 18th 2020 Newsnight report on the failures of GIDS (NHS gender identity service). … Continue reading BBC Newsnight – Safeguarding Concerns
Meeting the Tavistock
Parents with children affected by gender incongruence have an opportunity to have their voices heard at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. The Tavistock is home to both GIDS (The Gender Identity Development Service - the service for children under 18) and GIC (The Gender Identity Clinic - the service for adults). Today, 11th … Continue reading Meeting the Tavistock